The Substance: The Parody Musical

Jenny Lee Stern plays washed-up old hag Elisabeth Sparkle and Jayke Workman is her gorgeous young alter ego in an irreverent musical spoof of the 2024 Hollywood body-horror hit The Substance, with a score that repurposes (and perhaps rejuvenates?) songs from the Broadway catalog. Sam LaFrage directs a cast that includes Jaime Lyn Beatty—who co-wrote the show with Jonathan Hogue and Singfeld auteur Billy Recce—as well as Garrett Poladian, Megan Griggs and Gabriella Joy Rodriguez, plus TikTok's Julian Sewell as perennial Oscars bridesmaid Paloma Dimond.